On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:12:00AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> stan wrote:
> > Right, spaces in filenames is a disease.
> Why?
> > The vector for spreading this disease has largely been microsloth, and all 
> > of the uneducated users they
> > brought to the party.
> >   
> Why does spaces in names = a lack of education? Perhaps the clearest way
> to label a file includes a space?
> > Not a reason _not_ to handle them corectly, though, just an editorial
> > comment.
> >   
> IMO there's nothing intrinsically wrong with any character in a file
> name, as long as it makes sense with regards to your naming conventions.
> The only difficulty it causes is if your tools can't handle that
> character very well. These days, *even* on UNIX, most tools should
> handle spaces in filenames just fine.

GUI tools perhaps.  I think command line tools will always have
the difficulty of "what character or sequence is the separator
between arguments".

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